| “Representation” has it’s plentiful meaning in contemporary philosophy.It’s always translated into “zaixian” in the field of philosophy of art when researchers of philosophy of science translate it as “biaozheng”.To comprehend the foundations of representational arts,Kendall Walton put forward the theory of “make-believe”,which solved questions about the ontology of fictional objects and was still trapped by“emotional puzzles”.Contemporary philosophy of science toke the anti-realism tendency of Walton’s theory and used it into learning the representational questions about scientific models.As a consequence,R.Frigg put forward the fictionalism about scientific models to criticize similarity and isomorphism about scientific representation.This paper starts from the current theorical situations of philosophy of art and science in order to clarify how to define the representational function of art and science.In conclusion,both representational arts and scientific models have social function essentially,serving as props in games of make-believe.A prop is something which,by virtue of conditional principles of generation,mandates imaginings,in order to provide fictional truth.Fictional worlds are associated with collections of fictional truths.Through developing Walton’s theory,this paper regards reality as the foundation of fiction,which includes the prediction,assumption and imagination of actual things.And the reality is the set of all fictional possibility,which reveals people’s fundamental understanding of the world.In the end,this paper analyses a contemporary representational art to show more details about fiction and reality. |
